Yes. For instance, here in Nova Scotia there was a poster child for environmental racism, which was a pulp mill that was putting toxic waste into a beautiful, once pristine lagoon where indigenous peoples had gathered for picnics and swimming and gathering clams and things for thousands of years. For the last 60 years, it was the containment for effluent from the pulp mill. This was contributing to cancers and breathing problems of people in the area. Our government here in Nova Scotia recognized that, and we passed a bill, the Boat Harbour Act, to close off that effluent and to tell the company that they needed to come up with another solution rather than continuing to pollute that area. That has now happened.
This is the type of thing we need to start looking at. We can't continue putting our waste into fresh water and into places where it is going to be affecting the health of people. The health of people and the environment needs to come first.